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Food & Drink
The best caesars in Toronto right now
Featuring garnishes galore, including a freshly shucked oyster, a slow-smoked spare rib and a whole Cornish hen
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at the Comrade, an old east-end favourite with brand-new owners (but the same burger)
The team from Wynona couldn't pass up this project
City
True tales of Toronto’s most ill-mannered restaurant guests
Including art thieves, tyrannical tippers and booze-fuelled tantrums
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Tiny Market Co., a petite place in the Annex for handmade noodles, lunchtime sandwiches and monthly pasta parties
Like many of the city's new businesses, it started as a pandemic project
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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Paradise Grapevine, Geary Avenue’s new winery and rotisserie
Including whole roast chickens with a Swiss Chalet–inspired sauce
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at The Daughter, a new wine bar and bottle shop in Davisville
Including mortadella sliders, espresso martinis and challah galore
Food & Drink
Canadian-made eggnog, gingerbread gin, boozy hot cocoa and cocktail kits that make for excellent last-minute gifts
Just add a decorative bow
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Downtown Winery, a new winery, snack bar and bottle shop on Ossington
Wine Country appeal—without the drive
City
Six private chefs to bring home for the holidays
Why cook when you can outsource the prep (and the dishes) to a pro?
Food & Drink
Nine sparkling cocktails to drink right now that aren’t a negroni sbagliato (and one that is)
Bitter, boozy, and bubbly drinks by Toronto's best bartenders
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Food & Drink
Where to get a drink or dance until 4 a.m. during TIFF
Where to go after the after-party
Food & Drink
Twelve of Toronto’s best end-of-summer cocktails
Including highballs, hard seltzers and hibiscus margaritas
Food & Drink
“We spend winters in Brazil and summers in Prince Edward County”: How a chance encounter led one couple to open farm-to-table dining destinations in separate hemispheres
It all started on the Camino de Santiago
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Food & Drink
Toronto’s best new patios
Including sky-high seats, private dining bubbles and leafy backyards
Food & Drink
The best Ontario-made light beers for summertime drinking sessions
They're low in alcohol, big in flavour and highly crushable
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best patios right now
Our all-time favourite places to enjoy alfresco food and drink
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Food & Drink
The best canned (and bagged) Ontario wines to chug this summer
We're not kidding
Food & Drink
Toronto’s best CaféTO patios for summer 2022
Our favourite of the not-so-temporary-anymore outdoor seating situations
Reasons to Love Toronto Now
Because the new Massey Hall is spectacular
After a three-year, $184-million restoration, it's back and more beautiful than ever
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Food & Drink
Fourteen of the best cannabis-spiked sippers on the market
Including seltzer, soda, kombucha and hot cocoa
Culture
Inside Massey Hall’s three-year renovation
A spectacular, subtly refreshed sonic paradise
Culture
Inside the west end’s newly refurbished premier concert venue
The Mod Club's successor is glossy, high tech and ready to rock
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Culture
Inside the El Mocambo’s $30-million reno
Including a full recording suite, archival imagery and the original neon palms
Food & Drink
Ten of the best locally made bottles of vodka you can buy right now
Give them a whirl in your next martini, caesar or cosmo
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The Private and Independent School Directory Fall 2024
Browse through Canada’s top independent and private schools to find the right fit for your child
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Turf War: Old money versus new money at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club
For 148 years, the country’s oldest tennis club was an ivy-covered bastion of civility with a roster of like-minded, blue-blooded members. Then chaos erupted
Deep Dives
The Cult of Wellness: Othership, Nutbar and the expensive, obsessive quest for a perfect life
A growing cohort of Torontonians are swapping the coke-fuelled, booze-soaked club scene for cold plunges, sobriety and superfood smoothies. Here’s what it takes (and costs) to foster the ideal body and mind
Deep Dives
Michelin Men: Inside the making of LSL, Toronto’s wildly ambitious new fine-dining powerhouse
The $680-a-head uptown restaurant everyone’s talking about has three giant egos in the kitchen and one very rich benefactor calling the shots. If they don’t self-destruct, they may well produce something spectacular
Deep Dives
Inside Toronto’s explosion of bad dogs and worse owners
Boisterous, barky, humpy, mean: they’re everywhere and no one’s happy. Dispatches from the canine wars
Deep Dives
The Battle for Leslieville: Gentrification, opioids and murder in the city’s most divided neighbourhood
Last summer, when a stray bullet killed a young mother near the South Riverdale supervised consumption site, it sparked a vicious fight between area residents. One year later, tensions are high, neither side will back down and the overdose crisis rages on
Deep Dives
Scatterbrain: Inside the explosion of adult ADHD
Five years ago, hardly anyone was talking about adult ADHD. Now it’s all over social media, and self-diagnosis is rampant. How a complex neurological condition became the new superpower
Deep Dives
Who Earns What: The stories behind Toronto’s top salaries
From Olivia Chow to Galen Weston Jr. to Drake, here’s everything we could find on what the city’s biggest names are bringing home
Deep Dives
How the abuses of a small-town family doctor tore his community apart
Wameed Ateyah was the answer to Schomberg’s prayers: a family physician who took walk-ins, made house calls, gave to local charities. Then his dark secret was revealed
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2024
This year’s winners include a tiny perfect snack bar, a Japanese listening lounge and a high-flying steakhouse. What they all have in common is a fanatical commitment to excellence
Deep Dives
How Carley Fortune is reinventing the romance novel
In just two years, she’s published two runaway bestsellers, sold film rights to Prince Harry and Meghan, finished a third book—which hits shelves this month—and is well into her fourth. Here, she talks anti-romance snobbery, what makes a good sex scene and how sudden fame has changed her life
Deep Dives
The professor, the caregiver and the missing $30 million
Before he died, William Waters transferred his fortune to his wife’s caregiver. His lawyers say she coerced him. She says they were having an affair. The untold story of a scandalous estate battle
Deep Dives
The perilous lives of Canada’s international students
They come here for the promise of a good education and a better future. Then they discover the target on their backs
Deep Dives
My Psychotic Break: The postpartum nightmare no one talks about
After the birth of my first child, I split with reality. I had terrifying hallucinations, received messages from the spirit world and spent so much on New Age paraphernalia that I had to sell my house. A memoir on finding my way back to reality
Deep Dives
The Great Pretenders: How two faux-Inuit sisters cashed in on a life of deception
Karima Manji wanted it all for her twin daughters, Amira and Nadya. And she found a way to help them get it: financial aid earmarked for Indigenous kids. The fact that they weren’t remotely Indigenous wasn’t going to stop her
Cost of Living
City
This actor, bartender and financial planner makes $264,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I’ve spent almost $5,000 on my dog this year”
City
This Wychwood couple makes $123,800 a year. How do they spend it?
“Ontario was too expensive, so we’re having our wedding in Mexico”
City
This Distillery District couple makes $120,000 a year. How do they spend it?
“I like fancy brunch and he likes dives—but all of it is expensive”
City
This registered dietitian makes $106,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I spent more than $4,000 on my cats last year”
House of the Week
Real Estate
House of the Week: This East York property nearly tripled its asking price in two years
The 2,700-square-foot home comes with a wine rack suspended in mid-air, 20-foot vaulted ceilings and a basement with nanny-suite potential
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.3 million for a quirky detached near Yonge and Eglinton that was won in a lottery
The 4,000-square-foot property comes with an elevator, two laundry rooms, a three-tier backyard and four bedrooms
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.1 million for an Edwardian duplex in Little Portugal sitting on a massive commercial lot
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with Moroccan tiles, a meditation room, a backyard workshop and a tire swing
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.7 million for a whimsical custom-built home backing onto an Etobicoke ravine
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with a sauna, a hot tub, cave-like walls and nature all over
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.2 million for a new build by the Humber with a fireplace in a closet
The 3,900-square-foot property also comes with an elevator, a powder room with a swoosh sink and a playful blue laundry room